Scend

Word SCEND
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Definitions and meanings of "Scend"

What do we mean by scend?

To heave upward on a wave or swell. intransitive verb

The rising movement of a ship on a wave or swell. noun

Upward angular displacement of the hull of a vessel measured in a longitudinal vertical plane at right angles with and on either side of a horizontal transverse axis passing through the center of flotation. noun

The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge noun

Rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave verb

The rising motion of water as a wave passes; a surge; the upward angular displacement of a vessel, opposed to pitch, the correlative downward movement.

To ascend or descend something in a bold, risky, and or stylish way. Urban Dictionary

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The word "scend" in example sentences

The hens could fly high, out of range of the arrows, but would have to de - scend to within range to snatch the flag. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pour years ago it had been soprano; as he grew and matured, it would de - scend to the tenor range. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The volunteers and military personell from my community that are already on the scend never stopped to ask the racial makeup of those who needed help. ❋ Unknown (2005)

What did you think of the scend in “Sideways” where he gets smashed in the face with the motorcycle helmet? ❋ Unknown (2005)

She turned to see that he seemed a bit blurry-a green haze was starting to de-scend upon the bridge. ❋ DeCandido, Keith R. A. (2001)

With half a moon in the sky they sailed out of the confined waterways and felt the scend of the open sea lift the deck beneath their feet. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (2001)

Big Red had tried sailing out of this soup without success, and the Wing Riders had been forced to de - scend to the makeshift rafts to wait out the front's passing. ❋ Brooks, Terry (2000)

Seen in this light natural law appears as a group of principles that tran - scend the law of different epochs and regrouping a set of norms endowed with a certain continuity by opposi - tion to the law of a given epoch, which is transitory and changing; for the law of any epoch is the inter - preter of the preceding one, whereas natural law is the law which outlives the times. ❋ PAUL FORIERS (1968)

But although he does not oppose the artistic imagination to the analytical activity of the intellect, his Platonism does not tran - scend aestheticism, as the intellectual process itself is assimilated by him to creativity and is not recognized as the discovery of an eternal order. ❋ ERNST MORITZ MANASSE (1968)

He moved his knife hand gently, not quite tossing it, just feeling the scend of its superb balance in his palm. ❋ Sturgeon, Theodore, 1918-1985 (1953)

His pictures in the Vernon Gallery will not preserve his name, nor will his portraits viewed as works of Art. His name will scend in the ❋ Various (N/A)

Marster John die, us 'scend to his brother Robert and his wife Mistress Mary. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

_De_ -- from, down; as, _de-duct_, to take from; _de-scend_, to go down. ❋ Samuel Kirkham (N/A)

The Crown Preserve Co. sent us a quantity of patent fuel which stowed beautifully as a flooring to the lower hold, and all our provision cases were thus kept well up out of the bilge water which was bound to scend to and fro if we made any quantity of water, as old wooden ships usually do. ❋ Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans (1918)

I know well nuff dat de ole devul is mad as a tempest 'bout my bein 'here; he knows dat my call ter preach kums frurn Gord, and dat's wat meks' im so mad wen he sees Jasper 'scend de pulpit, fur he knows dat de people is gwine ter hear a messige straight frum heaven. ❋ William Eldridge (1908)

The immense volume of water thrown forward by the last scend of the ship had burst the lee door of the forecastle. ❋ Unknown (1897)

The rope was a new and stout one, and there was not much fear that the boats would break away from each other, but the strain set up by the alternate slackening and tautening of the painter, as first one boat and then the other was urged forward by the 'scend of the sea, was tremendous, and strained both craft to a positively dangerous degree. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

The colliding steamer lifted with the 'scend of the waves and crashed down yet again upon the hapless torpedo-boat, and young Frobisher found himself in the raging sea, clinging instinctively to something -- he knew not what -- that had come away in his hands as he flung them out wildly to prevent himself from sliding off the deck. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

[I cant] [wait] to ['scend it] down this coulior. ❋ Zfunk1 (2021)

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